Have you ever wanted to work in an art gallery? Now you can! Explore exhibitions, inspire young artists, clean the walls, organize and store stuff, serve visitors, and experience the uncomfortable sensation of job precarity and financial uncertainty.

　　EXHIBITION BY INSTITUTION is a first-person art gallery simulator. The premise is inspired by tasks required of entry-level gallery employees, such as cleaning, teaching, organizing supplies, and serving visitors. These chores progress from being realistic to poetic, invoking the sensation of precarity imposed by the neoliberal funding structures that cause persistent job insecurity in the arts and culture sector.

　　This three-dimensional environmental narrative is created through a process of mapping personal memories and experiences of working in a small regional gallery, transposing and appropriating an existing organization (Nanaimo Art Gallery) in Nanaimo, BC as a way of exploring of space.

　　Trailer:

　　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRHxK30DYg

　　Project website:

　　https://exhibition.ambervisualartist.com/

　　Updates:

　　August 6th, 2021

　　- An installer has been added on the Windows version.

　　- A Mac version has been added to the page, however I would still recommend playing on PC if the option is available due to installation and performance issues.

　　July 3rd, 2021

　　The project has expanded from a simple digital gallery space to a short simulator with a narrative.

　　Known bugs:

　　- If you start or resume the game by pressing the "start" or "resume" icons in the main menu and the pause menu with the mouse button, than the curser may hang over the screen and inhibit navigation with the mouse. Simply press the pause button, "P" or "Esc" twice to pause and un-pause the game.

　　- UI elements do not scale correctly on some Mac versions.